The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-03
FACTS OF A YEARS TRADE.
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past year which was an inducement to the hand
ling of these goods Dealers, however, are an
ticipating higher prices on all canned goods the
ensuing year The trade has met with some
little competition from the North on the water
routes The Florida trade is increasing every
year, and Interested railroad authorities should
certainly look after the interests OF this market
and regulate rates to meet competition, The
indications point to an enormous increase in the
canned goods trade in this market in the pres
ent years business. The crops are generally in
fair condition, which serves to give more
confident feeting of security between buyer and
seller and the business has opened up very fine
On the whole the margin of profits on canned
goods was not as large as in previous years, but
a great deal more goods were handled, when
were sold on very close margins owing to the
keenness of competition. All values, with one
or two exceptions, were low, and there was very
little fiuctuation. Collections We're unusually
good last year. There were, however, a mum
Der of small failures in the country, but the
losses were not very great.
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS
The past season cannot be said to have been a
profitable one for truck farmers in this section.
The late frostS last spring prevented any early
shipments of vegetables from this section, and
when truckers did begin to ship Norfolk and
New Jersey were also shipping. The severe
weather caused truckers to run their crops way
into the summer, and this was too late TO be
profitable. Prices, as a rule, in Northern mar
kets, were good ana remunerative for good
stuff but pretty nearly all the vegetables raised
ticularly potatoes. Beans and peas, however
were good. but cucumbers were a failure and
tomatoes nearly so, Truckers in this territory
say that while they did not make any money
they did not lose any and came out of the
season whole. The Charleston truckers how
ever, had quite a good season and were not af-
fected by the weather. Florida, as usual, came
ia ahead with their vegetables and made the
most OF the early marketing. The fruit season
was not remuneratve one. Prices ruled for
all fruits very low. but more particularly for
oranges. While the winter season was not so
severe at the previous year the fruit was not as
good as in former seasons No doubt the terrible
freeze of the winter before last had its effect
on the trees, from which they had not entirely
recovered. The prospect for the coming crop is
good, and quite a large yield is anticipated The
FIRST receipts from Florida arrived here Monday,
The melon crop was not as prolific as in seasons
gone by, but prices were very fair, and ready
change of the railway tracks to the standard
gauge, and the fruit was laid down in the
Western markets very rapidly. There was
some complaints about packing, and better re
suits from both fruits and vegetables might
have been obtained had the packing been better.
A great many shippers through bad packing
lost money. II is said by some shippers that
the arrival of fruits and vegetables at their deS-
tination in bad condition is the fault of the
transportation companies, but if truckers pack
their goods properly and in the right sort of
crates the companies can be regulated and the
fault placed where it belongs.
Therewere shipped from this port via the
coastwise sto .mships 567 $50 packages of fruits
and Al ,473 packages of vegetables and 800 $50
melons, distributed al follows: